Some good advice rstermer. Been there done that. Don't matter if you are a newbie or a half fast experinced you still have senoir moments
and sometimes tend to forget and you pretty much hit the nail on the head. When I was making my deck chair measured twice and was still an inch short so the next day had to go to the hardware store for an extra 2x4 because yes I cut it an inch short tried to tell them at the store that the warpage was so bad my cut shrunk it an inch.
Had a good laugh at that one. So that is my story
and I'm sticking to it. Live and learn.